On Wednesday September 10th the forum will be changing and may be down between 8am and noon.

Wednesday afternoon everyone's log in information should work and everything should be up and running. If you notice something not working right, just leave a comment here and we can forward that information to the web guys.

I see plenty things wrong...1) Bottom margin is off. The grey lettering is overlapping into the white footer. 2)The grey and black lettering is difficult to read against the red background. 3)Topics are not categorized, they are lumped together like the old layout. That little - (minus symbol) closes the entire board instead of the individual forums like it should. That way if I am not interested in a particular forum I can minimize it and display only the things I am interested in. What we have is one giant forum with topics under it instead of multiple forums that contain topics with subjects in them. 4)I liked the poster information on the top left instead of the bottom left. Thus keeping the signature line at the bottom where it belongs.5)The index page itself is parsed or something. Making the categories and info stacked instead of nice thin lines. That may be due to problem 3).

Couple more things. Make sure that French image crawler is still blocked because it will lock everyone out of the board when it is working. You may want to kick the Baidu crawler off the board too. That is Chinese based and will only attract a bunch of spammers. That is, if the Chinese government will allow it's citizens to even see such a board. Either way it is of little benefit to our typical viewers.

There may be more bots and crawlers that need purged. Some of them cause more harm than good.

I see that I still carry the title "Site Admin" which I am not. If I were, I would not be typing these suggestions. I would have already sought approval for the repairs and began work on fixing whatever I was allowed to.

The first thing being, apply the board preferences toggle that would allow me to default to "Quicksilver" or "mobile friendly version". I can't imagine what this place looks like on a cell phone now. Maybe that feature is enabled but I can't read or find it in this configuration.

I think it's hard to read. There is no break on a post between the user's info on the left and their post. Then there is no break between the top line of the post where it says "Post subject: ......." Lastly, there's no defined break between the user's post and their signature. Yes, there's a line there, but it's not much difference than....

When looking at the list of posts in a forum or the new or unread post list, the am/pm for the date/time in the "Last Post" column wraps a second line, making the list of posts take up more vertical screen space than it needs to.